multiply
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He described them as "very resilient" and said their short breeding cycle meant populations could multiply quickly in warm conditions.
From BBC ● Sep. 9, 2026
Meanwhile, just seconds after it launched, $LAPTOP earned enough trading volume to see its valuation multiply exponentially, shooting up from $37 to over $200.
From Slate ● Sep. 9, 2026
Now multiply that risk by tens of thousands of users.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 9, 2026
Tripling volumes, hitting annual release dates like clockwork, minimizing risky capital investments and returning more than $1 trillion to shareholders through dividends and buybacks helped Cook multiply Apple’s valuation 13 times during his tenure.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 31, 2026
Never again shall there be any such league of Elves and Men; for Men multiply and the Firstborn decrease, and the two kindreds are estranged.
From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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Datadog, down 25%, and Snowflake, down 41%, are in this group, too, although they’re younger companies trading at high multiplies of earnings.
From Barron's ● Apr. 16, 2026
Each reuse multiplies the value of the original dataset, ensuring that no discovery is wasted, every contribution can spark the next breakthrough, and researchers gain recognition for their work.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2025
JON LEVY: A glue player is the team member who multiplies everyone else’s results, helping the team win.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 12, 2025
Of all of Redford’s achievements, the institute and the festival are the most wide-ranging and everlasting, two shining, defiant examples of how quickly goodness multiplies.
From Salon ● Sep. 21, 2025
But a computer mouse multiplies as either mice or mouses.
From "Woe Is I" by Patricia T. O'Conner
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In Cibolo, a city north of San Antonio with a population of 36,000, an authority grant multiplied the number of Flock cameras from 11 to 52.
From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026
For an ice cream truck visiting a summer camp, the TAM is all the kids at the camp multiplied by how much ice cream each kid would buy that summer.
From Slate ● Sep. 1, 2026
But attacks have multiplied in 2026, particularly in the Gulf of Aden between Somalia and Yemen, which links the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean.
From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026
From that game on, TV games featuring high school football multiplied and schools began to travel around the country for marquee matchups.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 23, 2026
A compassionate, humane approach to the problems of the urban poor must replace the punitive practices and policies that have multiplied the harms associated with poverty and racial oppression.
From "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander
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When these genes are altered, cells can begin multiplying uncontrollably.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 27, 2026
Alongside rapidly multiplying cancer cells are immune cells, newly formed blood vessels and a particularly concerning group of cancer cells that remain unusually quiet.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 6, 2026
Perhaps that is why eclipse chasers keep multiplying.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 10, 2026
Swonk argued that the "hawks" at the Fed -- those policymakers who consider it appropriate to raise interest rates to combat high prices -- were multiplying.
From Barron's ● Jul. 29, 2026
Thus, no matter what you do, multiplying a number by zero gives you zero.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
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